Call for Art: POW!!! Jewish Comic Art and Influence

The Jewish Art Salon is partnering with the Brooklyn Jewish Art Gallery at CKI, Brooklyn, NY.

CALL FOR ART

POW!!! Jewish Comic Art and Influence

In conjunction with Jewish Comic Con, Brooklyn, NY.

The Jewish Art Salon is accepting submissions for POW!!! Jewish Comic Art and Influence, which will kick off (and run in conjunction with) Jewish Comic Con, the first ever event of its kind. The Jewish Comic Con, in its second year, explores how Jewish identity has influenced comics, both on the page and behind the scenes. But it isn’t just for the “members of the Tribe”. It’s for everyone. It’s a love letter to the creators of the comic book medium and their heroes!

This exhibition entails two distinct types of comics-related art: Comics based on Jewish content (including all manner of cultural, historical, and religious experiences in and out of the commercial publishing world), and “fine” artworks (such as paintings, collages and prints) inspired by comic books as subject matter, both in form and content. The more unique and personal, the better!

Joel Silverstein is an artist/curator and art writer. He has written over 60 articles about art and has exhibited at Columbia University, Pratt Institute and the Van Leer Institute Jerusalem. He is Founding Member of The Jewish Art Salon, for whom he has curated many exhibitions including The Dura Europos Project and JOMIX; Jewish Comics: Art & Derivation, at the UJA – NY, the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art and the Jacobson JCC in Roslyn, NY. He was chosen for the Jerusalem Bienniale 2015, and 2017 and is included in Ori Z. Soltes’ book, Tradition and Transformation; Three Millennia of Jewish Art & Architecture, MaKom Press, 2016.

Joshua H. Stulman is a comic book artist, painter, and curator. He co-founded Hadas Gallery, a Jewish Arts Gallery in Brooklyn in 2010 and served as curator through 2014. He currently publishes Israeli Defense Comics featuring the Jewish Super-Hero, Magen: The Shield Of Israel. He has been a guest and lecturer at Wizard World Comic Book Conventions on the topic of Jewish contributions to the Comic industry. Stulman’s artwork has been featured in the Jewish Comix Anthology Vol. 1 and his political cartoons have been featured in the Jewish Forward.

Goldie Gross is a Brooklyn-based artist and co-producer of the Jewish Art Salon’s upcoming exhibition “Jerusalem Between Heaven And Earth” at the Jerusalem Biennale 2017, curated by Ori Z. Soltes. For the Jewish Art Salon she is curating The Invisible Jew, and Natural Instincts. She also curated Sukkahwood at Inwood Park, NYC. She co-curated Art & Identity at Tzohar Seminary for Chassidus and the Arts.

This is in response to Call For Art: POW!!! My name is Ron Kasman and I can be contacted at ron.kasman@gmail.com .

I recently wrote and had published by Caliber Entertainment of Detroit a 216 page graphic novel about five Torontonians, four of whom are Jewish, who drive to a very early comic book convention in New York City in 1971. New York, of course, had many Jews living there. Additionally, most of the comic book industry was built by Jews like Stan Lee (Stanley Lieber) and Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg). I would describe the book as a coming of age story that takes place in an environment where there are a lot of Jewish people.

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